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NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel testified on September 16 before the Senate Budget Committee’s roundtable on Examining Federal Housing Assistance Programs. In her testimony, Diane addressed the need for deeply affordable housing, the declining federal resources, how COVID-19 exacerbated the…
NLIHC released a Spanish edition of its report Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing 2020 (Fuera de Alcance: El Alto Costo de la Vivienda 2020) on August 25. The report documents the significant growing gap between renters’ wages and the cost of rental housing throughout the U.S.
The report’…
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report to Congress on August 13 directly tying increases in the cost of rental housing to increases in homelessness. The report also indicates that HUD’s Point-in-Time (PIT) count is limited in its ability to provide an accurate count of the…
Senate Democrats announced a proposal on July 16 to invest $350 billion in communities of color, including specific policies that would increase investments in affordable housing and promote racial equity in homeownership. The “Economic Justice Act” proposes to provide communities of color…